Introduction

Illustration Credits

Title Page

Photo collage:

Pueblo wall (in background): Photo by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

 

Pottery bowl: Photo by Wendy Mimiaga; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

 

For other collage images, click on the description for credit:

Hopi woman grinding corn

Dyeing wool for Navajo rugs

Spanish morion (helmet)

Ute girls at Bear Dance

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Mesa Verde under stormy sky

Photo by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Joyce Heuman Kramer

Introduction

Mesa Verde archaeological region

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Location of Mesa Verde region within the Colorado Plateau

Map by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Aerial view of canyon and vegetation

Photo by Dan Mooney; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Ute Mountain and sage plain

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

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Cactus

Photo by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Joyce Heuman Kramer

Projectile Points

Photographs of projectile points through time

Paleoindian point (top row, left) from collections of the Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University (photo courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans); Paleoindian point (top row, right) photo from the Bureau of Land Management (at http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/ more/ CRM/
heritage_education/ history_mystery/ hm2/stone_points.html
); all other points from the Edge of the Cedars Museum collection, photos by Joyce Heuman Kramer, copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Paleoindian Period

Paleoindian hunters

Adapted from original illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Possible migration routes from Siberia to North America

Map by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information on possible routes: Figures 2.4 and 2.5 in Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America, by E. James Dixon, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1999)

Mammoth

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Paleoindian house (cutaway view)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in reconstruction: A Folsom Structure in the Colorado Mountains, by Mark Stiger, American Antiquity 2006, vol. 71, pages 321–351)

Postholes

Figure 51 in Badger House Community, Mesa Verde National Park, by Alden C. Hayes and James A. Lancaster, Publications in Archeology, no. 7E, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 1975

Clovis point

From the collections of the Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University; photo courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans

Folsom point

Bureau of Land Management photo at http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/CRM/heritage_education/history_mystery/
hm2/stone_points.html

Archaic Period

Archaic camp

Adapted from original illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Archaic migrations

Map by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and rabbit

Pen-and-ink drawings by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Wild plant foods

Photos by Rick Bell (pinyon, ricegrass, amaranth, and goosefoot) and Joyce Heuman Kramer (yucca); copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Archaic house (cutaway view)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basin metate and one-hand mano

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Archaic hunting equipment: atlatl, spear, projectile point

Atlatl: copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Atlatl, spear, projectile point: pen-and-ink drawing by Lew Matis; adapted, with permission, from Figure A.2 in Windows Into the Past: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's Guide for Teachers, edited by M. Elaine Davis and Marjorie R. Connolly, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 2000

Well-preserved atlatl

Edge of the Cedars Museum collection; photo by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Split-twig figurine of deer

Replica created by Paul Ermigiotti, photo by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker II Period

Basketmaker II farmstead

Adapted from original illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Blue corn

Illustration by Paul Ermigiotti; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Western and Eastern Basketmaker ranges

Map by Neal Morris and Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Corn and squash

Photos by Joyce Heuman Kramer and (inset) Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and rabbit

Pen-and-ink drawings by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Basketmaker II pithouse (cutaway view)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in reconstruction: Figures 4-4 and 5-3 in Pits Without Pots: Basketmaker II Houses and Lithics of Southeastern Utah, by Katherine H. Pollock, Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, 2001)

Map of Basketmaker II farmstead (schematic)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in schematic: Figures 4-4 and 5-3 in Pits Without Pots: Basketmaker II Houses and Lithics of Southeastern Utah, by Katherine H. Pollock, Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, 2001)

Basket

Illustration adapted from Basket-Maker Caves of Northern Arizona: Report on the Explorations, 1916–1917 (Plate 24), by Samuel J. Guernsey and Alfred V. Kidder, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, no. 2. Harvard University, Cambridge, 1921

Sandals

Edge of the Cedars Museum collection; photos by Sam Fee (left) and Joyce Heuman Kramer (right); copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Trough metate and two-hand mano

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Turkey bone awl

Photo by Kristin Kuckelman; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pendant and beads on fiber cord

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker III Period

Basketmaker III farmstead

Adapted from original illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Western and Eastern Basketmaker migrations

Map by Neal Morris and Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Basketmaker III community

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Corn, beans, and squash

Photos by Joyce Heuman Kramer and (corn inset) Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Map of Basketmaker III farmstead (schematic)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in schematic: Figure 9 in Badger House Community, Mesa Verde National Park, by Alden C. Hayes and James A. Lancaster, Publications in Archeology, no. 7E, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 1975)

Basketmaker III pithouse (cutaway view)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in reconstructions: Figure 9 in Badger House Community, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, by Alden C. Hayes and James A. Lancaster, Publications in Archeology, no. 7E, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 1975)

Basketmaker III great kiva at Shabik'eshchee

From Shabik'eshchee Village: A Late Basket Maker Site in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, by Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, no. 92, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1929 (photo reproduced with permission of the Bureau of American Ethnology)

Basketmaker III plain gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Basketmaker III white ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Bow and arrow

Copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo I Period

Pueblo I farmstead

Adapted from original illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Late Pueblo I community

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo I migrations

Map by Neal Morris and Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Turkey

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Corn, beans, and squash

Photos by Joyce Heuman Kramer and (corn inset) Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Map of Pueblo I farmstead (schematic)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in schematic: The Duckfoot Site, Volume 1: Descriptive Archaeology, edited by Ricky R. Lightfoot and Mary C. Etzkorn, Occasional Papers, no. 3, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, 1993)

Map of Pueblo I village (schematic)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (adapted from Figure 1.8 in McPhee Community Cluster Introduction, by Allen E. Kane, in Dolores Archaeological Program: Anasazi Communities at Dolores: McPhee Village, edited by Allen E. Kane and Christine K. Robinson, pp. 2–59, Bureau of Reclamation, Engineering and Research Center, Denver, 1988)

Pueblo I pithouse (cutaway view)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in reconstructions: Figure 2.12 in The Duckfoot Site, Volume 1: Descriptive Archaeology, edited by Ricky R. Lightfoot and Mary C. Etzkorn, Occasional Papers, no. 3, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, 1993)

Pueblo I neckbanded gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo I white ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo I red ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo II Period

Pueblo II great house

Adapted from original illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Pueblo II migrations

Map by Neal Morris and Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Late Pueblo II community

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo Bonito

Large photo by Sam Fee, inset by Dan Mooney; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Escalante Pueblo

Photos by Shirley Powell; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Chaco roads

NASA photo and model at www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/chaco_compare.html (Web page by Tom Sever)

Corn, beans, and squash

Photos by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Turkey

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Goodman Lake, before monsoon

Photo by Greg Hobbs; copyright Greg Hobbs

Goodman Lake, after monsoon

Photo by Kristin Kuckelman; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Ancient trails leading to Goodman Lake

Aerial photo courtesy of the USGS; trails, lake, and site information added by Kristin Kuckelman, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Map of Pueblo II farmstead (schematic)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information for schematic [kiva]: Figure 13 in Monitoring and Excavation at Aulston Pueblo [Site 5MT2433], a Pueblo II Habitation Site, by James N. Morris, Four Corners Archaeological Project Report, no. 6, Complete Archaeological Service Associates, Cortez, Colorado, 1986)

Pueblo II kiva, roof removed

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information for reconstructions: Figure 13 in Monitoring and Excavation at Aulston Pueblo [Site 5MT2433], a Pueblo II Habitation Site, by James N. Morris, Four Corners Archaeological Project Report, no. 6, Complete Archaeological Service Associates, Cortez, Colorado, 1986)

Pueblo II corrugated gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo II white ware and red ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo III Period

Pueblo III canyon-head village

Illustration by Theresa Breznau of Living Earth Studios; courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Late Pueblo III community

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo III migrations

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Domesticated and wild plant foods, Pueblo III period

Photos by Joyce Heuman Kramer (corn, beans, and squash) and Rick Bell (amaranth and goosefoot); copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Rabbit and turkey

Pen-and-ink drawings by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo III cistern

Photos by Greg Hobbs; copyright Greg Hobbs

Map of early Pueblo III farmstead (schematic)

Illustration by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information used in schematic: Block 500 at Sand Canyon Pueblo, reported in The Sand Canyon Pueblo Database [www.crowcanyon.org/sandcanyondatabase], Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, 2004])

Three-dimensional reconstruction of Sand Canyon Pueblo

Reconstruction by Dennis R. Holloway, Architect; aerial photo by Adriel Heisey

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park

Photo by Joyce Heuman Kramer; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo III white ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Pueblo III corrugated gray ware pottery vessels

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.

Metate bins

Photo by James Kleidon; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo III axe

Pen-and-ink drawing by Lee R. Schmidlap, Jr.; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Post-Pueblo Period

Overview:

Ancestral Ute and Navajo migrations

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Today’s pueblos

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo:

Post–A.D. 1300 pueblo in the Rio Grande valley: Arroyo Hondo

Reprinted with modifications, by permission, from Figure 2 in The Past Climate of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, Reconstructed from Tree Rings, by Martin R. Rose, Jeffrey S. Dean, and William P. Robinson; copyright © 1983 by the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Pueblo glaze ware pottery vessel

Courtesy of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico (MIAC catalog no. 43893/11)

Ute:

Ute wickiup, artist's reconstruction (left) and archaeological remains (right)

Left: Adapted, with permission, from Figure A.1 in Windows Into the Past: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's Guide for Teachers, edited by M. Elaine Davis and Marjorie R. Connolly, Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 2000
Right: Adapted, with permission, from "The Spatial Organization of Activities at Two Ute Sites in the Southern Rocky Mountains," by Rand A. Greubel, Alpine Archaeological Consultants; paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, October 1999

Ute pottery sherds

U.S. Forest Service photo at http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/ashley/heritage/publications/numic-transitions.pdf (Figure 2 in "Fremont Numic Traditions," by Byron Loosle and Michelle Knoll; paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, September 2003)

Ute projectile point

Photo by Jonathan Till; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Navajo:

Four sacred mountains of the Dinétah

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Map of forked-pole hogan

Adapted, with permission, from Figure 3.9 in Site LA72746, by Michael Dice and Leslie M. Sesler (in Archaeological Investigations in the Fruitland Project Area: Late Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo I, and Navajo Sites in Northwestern New Mexico, Volume IV: The Early Navajo Sites, Parts I and II: The Dinétah Phase Sites, compiled by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 35–94, La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 4, La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado, 2002) (map by Neal Morris)

Navajo pueblito

Photo by Leslie M. Sesler; copyright Leslie M. Sesler

Navajo projectile point

Borrowed, with permission, from Figure 2.67 in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Lithic Technologies in the Fruitland Study Area, by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler (in Archaeological Investigations in the Fruitland Project Area: Late Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo I, and Navajo Sites in Northwestern New Mexico, Volume V: Material Culture, Bioarchaeological and Special Studies, compiled by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 49–185, La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 4, La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado, 2002)

Navajo pottery sherds

Photo by Jonathan Till; copyright Jonathan Till

Spanish:

Dominguez-Escalante Expedition of 1776

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (source of information on route: Dominguez and Escalante Expedition Year 1776; Uintah Basin Teaching American History at http://www.uintahbasintah.org/jdandemain.htm)

Spanish morion (helmet)

Courtesy of the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center; 88.127.33

Spanish colonial chest from New Mexico

Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 065701

Historic Period

Overview:

Ute and Navajo population movements

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo:

Walpi Pueblo

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Bortell, X-30818

Hopi woman grinding corn

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Charles A. Nast, X-30779

Zuni man weaving on loom

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30906

Potter Maria Martinez

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30273

Albuquerque Indian School

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Continent Stereoscopic Company, Z-3671

Ute:

Ute camp

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30353

Towaoc Agency

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30657

Ute horsemen, brush shelter, teepee

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-81

Utes on horseback, Sleeping Ute Mountain in background

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30681

Ute children at boarding school

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30667

Beaded cradleboard

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-392

Beaded buckskin

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-563

Bear Dance

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-30596

Navajo:

Forked-pole hogan

Borrowed, with permission, Figure 4.17 in Patterns in Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Early Historic Architecture in New Mexico's Upper San Juan Basin, by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler (in Archaeological Investigations in the Fruitland Project Area: Late Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo I, and Navajo Sites in Northwestern New Mexico, Volume V: Material Culture, Bioarchaeological and Special Studies, compiled by Timothy D. Hovezak and Leslie M. Sesler, pp. 265–306, La Plata Archaeological Consultants Research Papers, no. 4, La Plata Archaeological Consultants, Dolores, Colorado, 2002) (photo by Leslie M. Sesler)

Circular masonry hogan

Used by permission of Fort Lewis College, Center of Southwest Studies, Southwest Colorado General Photograph Collection, SWP 001 IV-02-10

S. E. Day's Indian Trading Post

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Ben Wittick, X-32604

Dyeing wool for Navajo rugs

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Frashers Fotos, X-33177

Weaving a rug on a loom

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Jesse L. Nusbaum, N-338

Navajo silversmith

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, William M. Pennington, X-33039

Students at Methodist Indian Mission

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, H. S. Poley, P-1421

Navajo captives, Bosque Redondo

United States Army Signal Corps, courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 028534

Spanish:

Hesperus Peak along the Old Spanish Trail

Photo by Bill Proud; copyright Bill Proud

Other Peoples of European Descent:

Members of the 1871 Hayden Expedition

Copyright Colorado Historical Society (F-12188), all rights reserved

Narrow gauge train

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Otto C. Perry, OP-7854

Main Street, Cortez, Colorado, circa 1900–1920

Copyright Colorado Historical Society (Denver and Rio Grande Collection, CHS.X5324), all rights reserved

Stagecoaches

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Louis Charles McClure (William Henry Jackson), MCC-2869

Making camp

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-21030

Woman in doorway of farmhouse

Courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Thomas Michael McKee, Z-1368

Today

Overview:

Mesa Verde region today, with locations of American Indian reservations

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Montezuma County in the Mesa Verde region

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo:

Today's pueblos

Map by Neal Morris; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Hopi man and woman

Photo by Karen R. Adams; copyright Karen R. Adams

Hopi pottery vessel

Photo by Jeanne Fitzsimmons; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo dancer

Photo by Wendy Mimiaga; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Pueblo visitor to ancient site in Mesa Verde region

Photo by Victoria Atkins, courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi Heritage Center

Ute:

Ute Mountain Casino

Photo by Rebecca Hammond; copyright Rebecca Hammond

Tractor in field

Photo by Paul Evans; copyright Paul Evans

Man and woman at Bear Dance

Photo by Wendy Mimiaga; copyright Wendy Mimiaga

Ute girls at Bear Dance

Photo by Wendy Mimiaga; copyright Wendy Mimiaga

Ute potter

Photo by Rebecca Hammond; copyright Rebecca Hammond

Canteen vessel

Photo by Rebecca Hammond; copyright Rebecca Hammond

Dish with teepee design

Photo by Rebecca Hammond; copyright Rebecca Hammond

Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Complex

Photo by Rebecca Hammond; copyright Rebecca Hammond

Navajo:

Navajo woman selling rugs and jewelry

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Navajo Code Talkers

Photo by Donovan Quintero; copyright Navajo Times

Navajo woman making and selling jewelry

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Contemporary Navajo pottery vessel

Photo by Jeanne Fitzsimmons; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Navajo students at Crow Canyon

Photo by Ginnie Dunlop; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Peoples of European Descent:

Main Street, Cortez, 2008

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Farmers market

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Fountain in park

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Bean warehouse

Photo by Grant Coffey; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Cortez Recreation Center

Photo by Joyce Alexander; copyright Crow Canyon Archaeological Center